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I've Got Some Land to Sell You...

The ruling class is up to old tricks. Land clearances in paradise, lab grown meat, a few more billion to Ukraine and “boosters”, “tests”...

Beach Bum

I love the beach. I wish I could spend much more time at it. We didn’t go that much as kids. There was a pool at the park that had...

The Tree of Liberty

I am old enough to remember the Bicentennial in 1976. I may have been only four, but there were parades, The Tall Ships, colonial...

Pride Cometh Before the Fall

I think it will take literal starvation and no access to the internet, alcohol and weed to get everyone off their rear ends. Seriously,...

Nurses' Week

It is difficult to celebrate Nurse’s Week after watching us violate every tenet of The Nightingale Pledge over the last three years. “I...

The Way

I skipped my 50th birthday last year. It snuck up on me anyway. I had planned to walk the Camino de Santiago. The centuries old...

No Amnesty

I will never forgive those who destroyed millions of lives over the past three years. I will never forgive the doctors and nurses who...

O Catfish! My Catfish!

My ex-husband and I recently came to the conclusion that we catfished each other thirtysomething years ago. He thought I was the quiet,...

One Hundred Years

One hundred years ago, I might have been a socialist. Seeing the squalor of the tenements, the slaughter of a generation of men in the...

The Last Christmas

December 25, 2019 was the last Christmas I spent with all of my children. Our tradition after our divorce was to have the children...

Morbid Curiosity

I am curious about the Elite politicians pushing human composting as a way to save the planet. Is there something coming we plebs should...

Atonement

The medical community has much to atone for. The public used to trust us. Tell us their most dangerous secrets. Believed that we...

Cry, My Beloved Country

I don’t give a damn about Ukraine. As We the People are starting to wake up and finally get off our rear ends after watching 50,000...

For the Love of Money

I’ve been working for a month at a drugstore. I enjoy being friendly to the cranks. It is a gift, I guess, to be able to get an ornery...

On New Year's Day

Today is a brand-new day, a new year. A blank slate. I don't have too much planned for today. I might go to the range, have coffee,...

Still Flying

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one. ~ Malcolm Reynolds When I started this blog in January 2020, I...

How Does This Story End?

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea...

All I Have Left Is My Name

I’ve been ornery since the day I came out of the womb. My mother never ceases to remind me how irritable I was as a baby, how she had to...

Never Forget

I remember September 11, 2001. It was a beautiful, clear, late summer morning. I put my eldest on the school bus for kindergarten and...

Follow the $cience

Just when I thought the world couldn’t go more Black Mirror, the frauds running the country have started to ramp up the coronavirus...

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